I don't know what speed differences there might be, but another option is
something like this..
function ipfunc pIp
set the itemdel to "."
set the numberformat to "###" -- force length of each chunk to 3
-- append the numbers together sans "." with padded 0's using numberformat
repeat for each item tItem in pIp
put tItem +0 after tIp -- do the add to force the numberformat to
work
end repeat
return tIp
end ipfunc
And then use it like so..
sort lines of myIpList ascending numeric by ipfunc(each)
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 9:14 AM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I somehow got on to how to sort IP addresses, seeing they are not real
> numbers, and read in the dictionary that the sort command is a "stable
> sort". This occured to me:
>
> function sortIPList pIPList
> set the itemdelimiter to "."
> sort lines of pIPList numeric by item 4 of each
> sort lines of pIPList numeric by item 3 of each
> sort lines of pIPList numeric by item 2 of each
> sort lines of pIPList numeric by item 1 of each
> return pIPList
> end sortIPList
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Bob S
>
>
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